Word: lacing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...showed off their traditional clothing. Some teams compromised by sending out a couple of athletes in folk costume and the rest in what might easily pass for air crew uniforms. The handsome man in a short embroidered purple velvet coat and fairy-tale beautiful girl in cream silk and lace who led the Georgians only emphasized the dowdiness of the others on the team...
...wear that one, not that one, that one, that one...." Personally, I gave Pat Nixon's gown the highest marks: A clean, simple cream-colored satin number with an empire waist. Lucretia Garfield winds up on my worst-dressed list with her multi-tiered lilac satin and lace number. Sorry, Lucretia...
...first to trace the Rodhams back to a "raw and sparse" life in Scranton, Pa., where Hillary's grandfather worked 16-hour days in a lace factory and most of his relatives were "exhausted laborers, blistered farmers...drab loners, prudish spinsters, lonely bachelors, and sad drinkers." Her great-uncle George Beale Rodham was "an aberration in a family of underachievers," a second-tier political boss. The author suggests she inherited her skills from him. Other Rodhams ran "a fleabag hotel and a beer-and-gin-joint...in the heart of Scranton's infamous red-light district...
...Secretive all-female club that meets weekly to talk ballet, opera, Chenl and Ungaro over tea and lace cookies...
...Barrett is perfectly cast as Rose, exaggerating all of her ultra-feminine gestures, right from the outset of her tiptoeing, eye lash-batting and basket-carrying entrance. Rose's inward pureness is further demonstrated by her costume of nothing less than a sparkling white wedding dress, complete with a lace veil...